The Universal Pictures film is directed by Sergei Bodrov. Ben Barnes stars as Tom Ward, the seventh son of a seventh son, who possesses mystical powers and apprentices with Master Gregory in order to fight the forces of darkness and defeat Mother Malkin. The film features an all-star cast, including Jeff Bridges as Master Gregory, a shadowy figure who wards off supernatural beings, and Julianne Moore as the powerful witch queen Mother Malkin. Then, following a split between Legendary Pictures and Warner Brothers, the film was delayed again, not premiering in Europe until December 2014. Yet, due to post-production schedule changes, its release was moved to October 18, 2013. as The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Greenwillow in 2006), was originally slated to hit theatres on February 15, 2013.
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The movie, which is based on the first book in the series (published by the U.K.’s Bodley Head in 2003 as The Spook’s Apprentice and in the U.S. If Tom succeeds-and if he survives-he’ll be the last apprentice.For American fans of Joseph Delaney’s supernatural fantasy series, The Last Apprentice, the February 6 release of Seventh Son has been a very long time coming. When one of the world’s most malevolent witches escapes, Tom will face his first test. Tom Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son, and he has been chosen. The powers of evil are strengthening, and only one man holds them back. The Seventh Son movie comes out on February 6th! Watch the trailers here.īook 1 and Book 2 of the best-selling Last Apprentice series, now a major motion picture, Seventh Son. Older, badass mentor type with hypnotizing, dramatic voice encapsulates audiences everywhere. Ok yes, there is quite the older/bearded/mustached/crazy eyebrows Gandalf thing going on here, but we’re no stranger to the ultimate appeal of Jeff Bridges. Jury’s still out.ĭo that thing where you turn into a savage dragon again. Or maybe it makes you even more terrifying. Somehow the creepy fact that your character uses people’s bones to do magic is betrayed by your ravishing looks. MOAR KIT HARRINGTON PLEASE AND THANK YOU. He’s only in the movie for a couple of minutes but we’ll take what we can get. Good witch, bad witch, either way, you’re a radiant goddess. This is a very good idea: transitioning Ben’s rugged yet soft, fiery yet gentle hero image from Prince Caspian in The Chronicles of Narnia to the lead in Seventh Son. Yes, you do look like you want to choke us with dregs of evil, but you’re still looking mighty fine.
Read on for our picks for the hottest actors in the Seventh Son movie! Um, can we talk about the casting of this movie? There is QUITE the eye candy in store. Watching the trailers to the Seventh Son movie ( based on these books by Joseph Delaney) is like taking a triple shot of adrenaline, and not just for any of the following reasons: abundant swords and sabers, a 30 foot tall underground creature breaking through the earth, screaming witches, flying crucifixes, rampant and horrific dragons, a ginormous bear breaking out of his cage, vanishing skeletons, cascading from an atrociously treacherous waterfall, and generally some of the creepiest interpretations of fantasy elements we’ve seen.